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We’re all guilty of hoarding old fabrics and clothes with the intention of making something with them ‘one day’. Let that day be now; combine your vintage materials to craft this lovely quilt. Plus, use old crochet pieces to create a pretty coordinating pillow. It’s a great way to use up your stash and keep memories of times past alive.
Make a quilt
Wash, dry and press vintage fabrics and cut old shirts into useable panels, discarding plackets and collars. Next, cut a 15cm square and a 5.5cm x 15cm strip from card to use as cutting templates. Place the square template on the reverse of embroidered fabric, positioning it centrally over a motif. Draw around the square in pencil. Mark out more squares in this way.
Machine stitch 2mm inside the square borders before cutting them out. This will prevent the embroidery coming undone if cutting through a design and will also stop the linen fabric stretching out of shape while you piece the patchwork together.
Use the card strip to mark and cut several pieces of men’s shirt material and floral scraps. Lay the strips together in sets of three and stitch together on the long edges with a 5mm seam allowance. Press the seams flat and use the card strip to mark and cut across the trio to make a strip of blocks. Combine them to make several blocks of nine patches and sew together as before.
Make more square blocks from three 5.5cm x 15cm strips of fabric. Use up any oddments of embroidery that were too small to make whole squares from. Press all the patches and lay out on a flat surface in a symmetrical design. Ours is five patches by five patches. Stitch the squares together in strips, then into a
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